Giardia sp. and Cryptosporidium sp. infections in primates in fragmented and undisturbed forest in western Uganda

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 439-440

  Salzer, Johanna S ^a   Rwego, Innocent B ^b   Goldberg, Tony L ^a   Kuhlenschmidt, Mark S ^a   Gillespie, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITIC DISEASE; PERSISTENCE; PRIMATE; PROTOZOAN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOBINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FOREST; GIARDIA; GUENON; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PILOCOLOBUS TEPHROSCELES; PRIMATE; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SOFTWARE; TREES; UGANDA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KIBALE NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA; WESTERN PROVINCE [UGANDA];

CERCOPITHECUS ASCANIUS; COLOBUS; COLOBUS GUEREZA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; GIARDIA; GIARDIA SP.; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS;

EID: 34249069869     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-970R1.1     Document Type: Article

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